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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Apple Pie Vs Boobs

Many years ago my High School Civics teacher wrote a quote on the chalkboard. He told us to write it in our notebooks and to never forget it. He attributed the quote to Francois Marie Arouet. Arouet was a French writer, essayist and philosopher better know by his pen name Voltaire.

The quote is “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire strongly believed in civil liberties and is often quoted on this subject. At a college level you will find that Voltaire never wrote this exact quote, but other quotes that were similar.

The framers of the United States Constitution must have had this quote in mind when they wrote the First Amendment to the Constitution. As they were, I too am a firm believer in our First Amendment rights.

Lawrence Walters is currently working on a case concerning internet pornography. The operator of the pornographic Web Site is being charged with obscenity.

There are probably many other such cases on this subject currently in our court systems. What makes this case unique is Attorney Walters’ approach to the defense of his client. He is using “Google Trends” as part of his defense. Walters is arguing that "the evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that interest in the sexual subjects exceeds that of more mainstream topics — and that by extension, the sexual material distributed by his client is not outside the norm."

He is using the Google Trends search terms surfing, apple pie, orgy and boobs. Boobs are a clear cut winner except during the Holiday season when Apple Pie soars above Boobs. I went to check it out but instead of boobs and orgy, I use tits and pussy. The results show a greater disparity between the wholesome and obscene searches. Pussy even beat out Apple Pie during the Holiday Season. I guess that more men are searching for pussy because their wives or girlfriends are busy baking apple pies.

This morning I did a little research on this Blog using my Stat Counter. The two most popular entry pages to The Beach Bum Report are one (from December 2006) that is titled Haulover Beach and a Blog that I wrote this past January titled Velvet Underground.

The search terms used to reach the Haulover Beach Blog vary but they all have the words Haulover Beach in them. On the other hand all of the visitors that go to the VU Blog come from a Google image search for hookers (I posted a picture on that Blog titled hookers.jpg).

Perhaps I should write a Blog about Surfing and Apple Pie just to see how popular they are to people that search on Google.

In the meantime, a tip of my hat goes out to Lawrence Walters; who may not approve of what I say, but he will defend my right to say it.

11 Comments:

Quotin: "The operator of the pornographic Web Site is being charged with obscenity." The importance of beating the obscenity for the client is that if the party is convicted on an "obscenity" the government is then permitetd to use RICO to take his other assets. (Designed originally as a mob prosecution tool, RICO was amended in 1984 to include obscenity as a so-called predicate offense.) The first case I know of where this was used was against Ferris Alexander. By the time the case was over, the government had driven Ferris Alexander, a multi-millionaire, into bankruptcy, shipped him to the federal pen for a six-year stretch, and seized most of his assets, including 13 theaters and bookstores and some $9 million in inventory. The case ended up at the United States Supreme Court. The federal government won the case against Ferris Alexander. The government's case was argued before the supreme court by Ken Starr, the man who later took on Bill Clinton. (Isn't law fun?)